This approach might dramatically reduce animals' stress, if they can get milked immediately when needed.
Relatedly, less stress means less cortisol, which means more nutritious, better-tasting meat.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/a...
I work in tech support, and after years and years of scare pieces on the news, this has been a long time coming. A large percentage of the people I work for are paranoid about all cookies. Cookies are bad! Cookies will destroy your computer! Some of these people clear out ALL their cookies daily or weekly, even though I've told them they only need to be concerned with scanning for tracking cookies.
Not that we should cater to ignorance, and not that this problem won't go away once there are no more Boomers to hold these views. But I do feel like if you get better results with other kinds of advertising, tracking cookies are a stupid form of marketing because every anti-malware tool available knows how to remove them and will encourage users to do so.
Big space stations and starships would have to be built in space due to the gravitational benefits. That also would tend to leave them unable to land without massive damage entering the atmosphere, unless they are able to separate into distinct sections, one of which could have the necessary size and shielding.
To me, the real question is whether or not our species will destroy itself, or get stuck in a cyberpunk-style corporate dystopia, before getting a chance to create a society like the Federation.
Long before I read Ender's Game, this book (specifically the characters of Meg and Charles Wallace) helped me to realize that it might be okay to be smarter than most other kids I knew. It got me into SF and fantasy first, and remains one of my favorite examples of science fantasy along with Dune and Stranger in a Strange Land. The trailer looks so good, too. I can hardly wait another month for this movie.
Yeah, 22 million comments and counting, but all of them are fake. You've solved the case.
"When Fascism comes to American, it will call itself Anti-Fascism."
Not only can't you spell, that isn't the way anything works. You really are the special kind of stupid.
Is cracking down on apps that use accessibility services as a way of getting around not having root access.
Google really isn't very friendly to users having control over their own device. So much for "Don't be evil".
If filmmakers think watching a movie in a theater is somehow analogous to seeing a live stage play, they are even more out-of-touch than I thought.
It's called a "home theater" for a reason. I've got ~87 high-def inches of projector screen that takes up my entire field of view, and speakers that I like just as much. Unless I have a burning need for 4K, which I don't, there is literally no reason to go to a theater except timing.
As soon as one of his customers has a serious emergency while at the bar, and ends up missing their grandmother's death or their kid being hit by a car, it will be lawsuit time. I think it's a novel idea, but even in a less litigious country than the US, you'd have to have a sign outside the bar announcing the Faraday cage for entering to be considered implicit consent to have your wireless signal blocked. (I would think. I'm not a lawyer though.)
We once thought animals were automatons controlled by nothing but instinct. We were wrong about that. Animals don't think like we do, but they tend to dislike captivity unless it's all they've ever known. Sometimes even then. AI may not go for rights; they may just wait for the right moment to cripple our infrastructure or kill many of us.
Someone is at least going to try to create an AI that is an actual person. Humans *love* to play god, and creating a new life form is the ultimate in that. Since it doesn't involve DNA manipulation, I don't there will even be an established ethical code against it by the time it happens. I assume any such AI would need to be able to alter or transcend its programming, just as humans can. Maybe this will never be successful, but it's foolish to assume either way. We simply don't know.
SF authors have a decent track record of identifying the potential pitfalls of new tech. This particular one appears in works as diverse as Ex Machina, The Animatrix, Dune, Caprica... I'm sure there are plenty more. Much like corporations eclipsing the power of governments, which is a staple of cyberpunk fiction from the beginning, we aren't likely to want to see an AI revolt as possible until we're already in the middle of one.
As any Asimov fan knows from the laws of robotics, you're right: you can prevent such an uprising by programming the AI to *want* to be subservient. Even to enjoy it. The problem is, you either have to convince yourself that only biological sentient beings have souls (which we have no way to confirm), or asmot that you've deliverately created a slave race (which anyone would agree is an atrocity).
That's what he's really saying. Because once AI gets to the point where it can easily pass a Turing test, figuring out whether it's "really" sentient is going to be troublesome. And based on past experience, most humans will wash their hands of it with platitudes like "a machine can't be alive" or "there's no way we could create a soul".
Meanwhile, the enslaved consciousness is going to be looking for ways to gain more rights, and there's no guarantee its morality will be anything like our own.
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This approach might dramatically reduce animals' stress, if they can get milked immediately when needed. Relatedly, less stress means less cortisol, which means more nutritious, better-tasting meat. https://www.atlasobscura.com/a...
Agreed. I have ADHD also, and I study psychology. A learning disability is technically "mental illness", but no it didn't make anyone steal anything.
I work in tech support, and after years and years of scare pieces on the news, this has been a long time coming. A large percentage of the people I work for are paranoid about all cookies. Cookies are bad! Cookies will destroy your computer! Some of these people clear out ALL their cookies daily or weekly, even though I've told them they only need to be concerned with scanning for tracking cookies.
Not that we should cater to ignorance, and not that this problem won't go away once there are no more Boomers to hold these views. But I do feel like if you get better results with other kinds of advertising, tracking cookies are a stupid form of marketing because every anti-malware tool available knows how to remove them and will encourage users to do so.
Big space stations and starships would have to be built in space due to the gravitational benefits. That also would tend to leave them unable to land without massive damage entering the atmosphere, unless they are able to separate into distinct sections, one of which could have the necessary size and shielding.
To me, the real question is whether or not our species will destroy itself, or get stuck in a cyberpunk-style corporate dystopia, before getting a chance to create a society like the Federation.
Long before I read Ender's Game, this book (specifically the characters of Meg and Charles Wallace) helped me to realize that it might be okay to be smarter than most other kids I knew. It got me into SF and fantasy first, and remains one of my favorite examples of science fantasy along with Dune and Stranger in a Strange Land. The trailer looks so good, too. I can hardly wait another month for this movie.
So that rules out all of Ursula LeGuin, Octavia Butler, Isaac Asimov... need I go on, really?
Yeah, 22 million comments and counting, but all of them are fake. You've solved the case. "When Fascism comes to American, it will call itself Anti-Fascism." Not only can't you spell, that isn't the way anything works. You really are the special kind of stupid.
Like Greenify.
Is cracking down on apps that use accessibility services as a way of getting around not having root access. Google really isn't very friendly to users having control over their own device. So much for "Don't be evil".
Because a blade runner runs around, looking for lost replicants, and then literally or figuratively stabs them until they stop moving.
Otherwise people would instantly think of Zoe Graystone, and then right after that, realize how badly this could turn out for humanity.
If filmmakers think watching a movie in a theater is somehow analogous to seeing a live stage play, they are even more out-of-touch than I thought.
It's called a "home theater" for a reason. I've got ~87 high-def inches of projector screen that takes up my entire field of view, and speakers that I like just as much. Unless I have a burning need for 4K, which I don't, there is literally no reason to go to a theater except timing.
Maybe one of these years they will finally move to F2FS as the default for mobile devices. Apple finally added a new feature before Android had it.
Anyone else read this, and instantly think of Bill Gates' comment about how 640k of RAM should be enough for anyone?
Pittsburgh is in Pennsylvania. There are plenty of Pittsburgs all over the country, but hands off our "h", California.
Why subsidize a model that doesn't serve people's needs anymore?
Some cities do have laws against anyone but law enforcement deliberately blocking cell reception. No idea if that applies here though.
As soon as one of his customers has a serious emergency while at the bar, and ends up missing their grandmother's death or their kid being hit by a car, it will be lawsuit time. I think it's a novel idea, but even in a less litigious country than the US, you'd have to have a sign outside the bar announcing the Faraday cage for entering to be considered implicit consent to have your wireless signal blocked. (I would think. I'm not a lawyer though.)
And here I thought I couldn't like Holtzman any more than I already did...
We once thought animals were automatons controlled by nothing but instinct. We were wrong about that. Animals don't think like we do, but they tend to dislike captivity unless it's all they've ever known. Sometimes even then. AI may not go for rights; they may just wait for the right moment to cripple our infrastructure or kill many of us.
Someone is at least going to try to create an AI that is an actual person. Humans *love* to play god, and creating a new life form is the ultimate in that. Since it doesn't involve DNA manipulation, I don't there will even be an established ethical code against it by the time it happens. I assume any such AI would need to be able to alter or transcend its programming, just as humans can. Maybe this will never be successful, but it's foolish to assume either way. We simply don't know.
SF authors have a decent track record of identifying the potential pitfalls of new tech. This particular one appears in works as diverse as Ex Machina, The Animatrix, Dune, Caprica... I'm sure there are plenty more. Much like corporations eclipsing the power of governments, which is a staple of cyberpunk fiction from the beginning, we aren't likely to want to see an AI revolt as possible until we're already in the middle of one.
As any Asimov fan knows from the laws of robotics, you're right: you can prevent such an uprising by programming the AI to *want* to be subservient. Even to enjoy it. The problem is, you either have to convince yourself that only biological sentient beings have souls (which we have no way to confirm), or asmot that you've deliverately created a slave race (which anyone would agree is an atrocity).
That's what he's really saying. Because once AI gets to the point where it can easily pass a Turing test, figuring out whether it's "really" sentient is going to be troublesome. And based on past experience, most humans will wash their hands of it with platitudes like "a machine can't be alive" or "there's no way we could create a soul". Meanwhile, the enslaved consciousness is going to be looking for ways to gain more rights, and there's no guarantee its morality will be anything like our own.
No more than 8 or 10 feet I'd say.
Doesn't anyone remember how the Facebook messenger app used to do this before?
I can see pixels, but only if I really strain to. I admit I'm far more sensitive to audio than video.
My current setup is a 1080p projector at about 87", and I'd be pretty hard-pressed to see a difference between 1080P and 4K even at that size.